DEVELOPING A PROFESSIONAL APPRAISAL SYSTEM

• Encouraging professional learning
• Recognizing and celebrating good practice
• Fostering professional collaboration and community
• Improving student learning by promoting quality teaching
• Focus on the students and their learning , rather than the teacher
• Multiple data sources
• An inter-related/connected/dynamic system that meets/supports all facets of student learning
• Build authentic, transformational collaboration

Desired Features

• Appraisal as more than a snapshot. More of a video of performance
• Open, honest conversation about teaching
• Appraisal that impacts student learning
• A system that promotes risk-taking and involves teachers
• Building a collage of practice over time
• Talk with teachers about practice to promote self-directed teacher learning - a reflective process
• Promote and sustain collaboration
• Support new teachers in embracing norms and best practices of the culture